(Whittington Press.) Nigel Hamway & Peter Lawrence: '2020 Vi...

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(Whittington Press.) Nigel Hamway & Peter Lawrence: '2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them.', Cheltenham, Nomad Letterpress & the Society of Wood Engravers, 2020, limited edition, number 152 of 340 copies, set in Perpetua and printed by Anna Parker and Pat Randle at the Whittington Press on Zerkall Paper, published to mark the Centenary of the Society of Wood Engravers, a year on press, this book links past with present. Nigel Hamway selected nineteen of his favourite contemporary wood engravers and asked them for work (many of whom produced a new engraving for the project), they in turn chose a significant artistic influence to be included alongside their work. Numerous full page illustrations throughout, several tipped in/folding, including illustrations by Neil Bousfield & Paul Nash, Anne Desmet & Edward Wadsworth, Hilary Payner & Henry Moore, Sarah Van Niekerk & Gertrude Hermes, Howard Phipps & Eric Ravilious, Andy English & Reynolds Stone, etc etc, folio (34 x 26cm), original quarter cloth, patterned paper covered boards, printed label to spine, original slipcase; Sandy Connors: 'Busy as a Bee. Recipes and Labels for the Kitchen Garden', Whittington Press, 2002, limited edition, number xlix of 55 special editions, signed by the author, 12 wood engraved illustrations (some coloured), 8vo (20 x 14cm), original half tan morocco gilt, patterned paper covered boards, with accompanying folder containing 12 proofs of the engravings and a decorated seed saving envelope, half cloth, paper covered boards, housed together in original slipcase; Rosalind Randle & Judith Verity: 'Rose's Aga Recipes', Whittington Press, 1995, limited edition, number 7 of 30 specials signed by the author and illustrator, 6 hand coloured linocut ills. by Judith Verity, bound in the style of the 30 specials of the first edition of 1984 by Brian Settle of his Ludlow Bookbinders, original floral decorated American cotton, oval blue leather gilt title label to front cover, original cloth solander box lined with floral cloth and backed with blue leather gilt; Hellmuth Weissenborn (ill.); Rupert Brooke: 'Country Scenes 1 & 2 : Wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn, with an Introduction by John Randle', Whittington Press, 2001, limited edition, one of 50 specials, two volumes, each of 12 wood engravings, each original pictorial printed wraps, accompanied by an additional small paper portfolio with a set of proofs of all the engravings, all housed together in original dark red paper-covered slip case; 'Matrix 36. A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles', Whittington Press, Summer 2020, limited to 660 copies, of which this copy is one of 600 regular copies bound in wrappers, the final full issue of the series which was first produced in 1981, tipped-in and bound-in inserts of wood engravings, type specimens, sample pages, photographs etc., content/contributors includes Miriam Macgregor, John Randle, Russell Maret, Paul W. Nash, Alan Powers, Jerry Kelly, Sebastian Carter etc, 4to (28 x 20cm) original pictorial card covers, dust wrapper; 'People & Places. Wood-Engravings by John O'Connor', Whittington Press, 1999, limited edition, number 92 of 375 copies, 36 wood engraved illustrations by John O'Connor, original quarter cloth, pictorial paper covered boards; John Randle: 'One Rainy Day', Whittington Press, 2000, limited edition, number 5 of 40 special copies with a signed engraving by Miriam Macgregor and an engraving by Edward Walters, [4],6,[4]pp, original sewn brown Japanese paper wrappers, wood engraved vignette to upper cover, housed in the original burgundy paper slipcase; plus an editioned hand coloured wood engraving by John Lawrence entitled 'All Afloat: Coat', printed from the original block by Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press, pencil signed by John Lawrence and dated 1994, number 48/60, printed area approx. 12 x 15cm, and a signed and numbered engraving by Simon Brett (9)